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- From: viky.nandha@xxxxxxxxx (விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar))
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:02:43 +0530
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:42 AM, 0 <0 at 0throot.com> wrote:
I don't think *freedom* means anti-proprietary.
Yes, if you are not talking about *software* freedom.
Even though it might
advocate the use of free software over proprietary software, I don't
think it intends to ban the usage of proprietary software.
No one is banning the usage of proprietary software here. Rather, the
companies that make proprietary software play cheap tricks to ensure that
computers are not usable without those proprietary software. And the
intention of the free software movement is to protect users from such a
lock, by developing free software equivalents.
To give an
example, NVIDIA provides its proprietary drivers for Linux and I use it
because it works best for my hardware. So, the first thing I do after
installation is nuke nouveau. This does not mean I have forgotten the
point of free software.
IMHO, If someone wants to use a proprietary product with FOSS, so be it,
denying this right to him/her would indeed be against the FOSS philosophy.
There is no single thing called FOSS philosophy, there is *Free software
philosophy* and *Open source philosophy* which are very different, though
the technical definitions sound almost the same. If you really want to
understand the difference, read this quite long story [1].
[1]
http://blog.vigneshnandhakumar.in/transcript-of-rms-talk-at-mit-chrompet/
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Vignesh Nandha Kumar
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